Verizon Eats Into AT&T iPhone 4 Market Share

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acadia11

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HOw is this captruing iphone share? Being as they are on two different technologies, it's quite possible, many of the iphone 4 buyers are Verizon customers who purhcased iphones. A real capture would be someone switching from AT&T to Verizon, specifically to get the iphone on Verizon network. But, if they were not an AT&T and never were going to be an AT&T customer , who cares. The AT&T iphone market was pretty much saturated at any rate.
 

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This article is blogger BS at its best. Previously, AT&T had 100% of i4 sales. Verizon sells any of the i4, then they are "cutting into" the AT&T 100%. If the stats show that new smart phone buyers are choosing Verizon over AT&T, then that might mean something. Where are the numbers for Verizon new customers? Or customers that switched? Almost certainly the vast majority of these Verizon i4 owners were already Verizon customers.
 

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[citation][nom]mobrocket[/nom]how is this possible... ATT says it as the fastest network and great service... but then again they call what they have 4g... so lying comes natural to them....[/citation]

You do know every mobile companys claim to have 4g, but none of them are even close to real 4g yet...
 

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but then again they call what they have 4g... so lying comes natural to them.

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. 4G is just an acronym for marketing people. It does not have a specific speed. Nor did 3G before it.They are just a generality for the increase in bandwidth as newer technologies arrive. aka a classification.
 

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In Europe, 4G has a legal definition. In the US only, what you (BSMonitor) said is true. Only Verizon's LTE (soon to be AT&T's) has the ability to grow to European 4G standards, but it is not there now.
 

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[citation][nom]BSMonitor[/nom]You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. 4G is just an acronym for marketing people. It does not have a specific speed. Nor did 3G before it.They are just a generality for the increase in bandwidth as newer technologies arrive. aka a classification.[/citation]

Peak data rates of up to approximately 100 Mbit/s for high mobility such as mobile access and up to approximately 1 Gbit/s for low mobility such as nomadic/local wireless access, according to the ITU requirements.

do some research before you comment. 4g is the next generation wireless, after 2g, and 3g, the US does not have 4g, they just told everyone they did. Where just in a situation where the companies don't want to admit that they goofed, that there networks do not meet 4g standard, and that there still working on fully rolling out 4g.

once we move to LTE Advance then we will have 4g. LTE Advance was submitted for approval in 2009 is expected to be realeased in 2012, and is suppose to have a peak download rate of 500Mbit/s with max upload of 1Gbit/s

speed and new technology are the reasons why its not 3G, there is no way for 3G networks to touch 4G speeds. If there was a way for 3G to hit 4G speeds then you can call it a marketing acronym.

Speed isn't the only thing that separates one generation of technology from the next.
 

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How can this be attributed to at&t subscribers dropping off the unlimited data plan? Those who have unlimited data will continue to get unlimited data for the same price. With at&t's "pick and choose the options you want" plans, that everyone seems to complain about for some reason, means that the data options are independant of the voice plans. So even those who signed new contracts to get newer phones are always able to keep the unlimited data if they choose not to change that option.

This is in slight contrast to Verizon's options. Where as you could choose a voice plan and then add other features to it, such and messaging, data, etc., the more popular option was to get one of their already bundled/locked together plans that they made a little more affordable for all those new iPhone subscribers. Thos people with those contracts will see that they no longer have unlimited data when they choose to renew with Verizon. All those customers with the slightly more expensive "build to order" plans will, at this point, be able to continue using any options that do not have any specificly dependant plans that are required to keep that option.

Just an FYI for those that are interested.
 
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